Sentence examples for milliseconds rather than from inspiring English sources

Computers now try to take advantage of arbitrage opportunities that last milliseconds, rather than hours.

That has sometimes meant trading faster and faster, with a time horizon of milliseconds rather than months.

While these advantages are measured in milliseconds rather than minutes, both high-frequency trading and flash orders enable certain investors to chisel a profit between bid and offer — the same abuse of inside market information and access that the S.E.C. tried to eliminate four decades ago.

"The search quality is exponentially better," says Hernandez of the new back end that enables results in 30 milliseconds, rather than 3 or 4 seconds.

We have developed Tachyon, a peptide-indexing based look-up method that identifies sequences similar to a user-defined query protein at unprecedented speeds and look-up times of a few hundred milliseconds, rather than minutes on a single dual-core processor.

Additionally, calcium influx during a backpropagating action potential occurs continuously for a period on the order of a millisecond, rather than an instantaneous increase.

The cluster of nevus cells (100 μm) probably lends itself to treatment with a millisecond laser rather than a nanosecond laser.

This suggests that the motions in these residues are predominantly on the slower micro- to millisecond time scale rather than a faster nano- to picosecond time scale.

It also measures response time in micro seconds, rather than milliseconds.

Effectively, the machine is checking for news of an incoming call or message briefly once every 15 milliseconds before powering back down, rather than keeping connections to the user's peers constantly open.

Yet at the other extreme, it seems unlikely that investors benefit much from waiting only a microsecond rather than a millisecond to trade.Common but untraceableHowever, plausible as the claim that HFT pushes up the bid-ask spread may be, the authors cannot prove it.